Time is like a river, carrying us down the river and encountering reality, but we cannot stop or avoid it, we can only deal with it in the best way. "Three-Body Problem" lets us know that in the face of the vast universe, human beings are insignificant. And Wang Xiaoshuai's "Long Time", as a tribute to the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, allows us to have a deeper understanding of the influence of the times on the individual in the torrent of your life far beyond imagination.
When I came home from the Spring Festival holiday, my grandfather said to me: In this life, one's life depends on the sky. This sentence is one of the few that can be branded and reprinted in the ten-day bombardment of information on me. This movie reminds me of my grandfather's words once again.
In 2018, a lot of books, works and collections of essays from the 40 years of reform and opening up were published in the industry, none of which touched my heart as much as this movie. My friend was very excited to see Wang Xiaoshuai's name before the Broadway screening plan. I had never seen the works of this sixth-generation director before, so I bought tickets with suspicion. The film is 175 minutes long. It can be said that I have hardly seen such a long film except for the three idiots I watched in India and the Taiwanese film Sediq Bale. The beginning is even a little dull, with always gray tones, tattered scenes, and back-and-forth shots that make it almost impatient. But soon, I was attracted by the interpretation of the two protagonists.
As a post-85s generation, although not like the generation of the protagonist of the movie, he experienced major events such as the spread of popular culture, birth policy control, third-tier construction, state-owned enterprises, laid-off reemployment, etc. , the surrounding relatives and friends, experienced these ups and downs.
Through the setting of various characters and plots, the movie is too true to restore the operation of the whole set of mechanisms under the background of that era. The expectations and disappointments of an ordinary family. The despair of a man with strong blood and vigor because he cannot defend the purest and most primitive desire of a small family for family happiness; diligent, abide by his duties, and full of Akagi's sincere concern for his friends. A gentle and virtuous woman who never speaks loudly is helpless, weak, and aggrieved when the system and power judge her fate; but out of her sincere love for her husband, she is willing to choose to end herself life, so brave. The family planning director acts as a screw in the operation of this mechanism. On the one hand, she takes her responsibility to perform her duties without hesitation, but when faced with the loss of her friend, she has a strong sense of guilt. This kind of conflict is directly pressing. Neighbors who were imprisoned because of the pursuit of new trendy culture, young girls who chose to study abroad because of the open era, and families who became prosperous because they went to sea to do business. Etc., etc.
The film shows a lot of conflicting tension. Some people say that if the theme is loss of independence, then the character of "New Liu Xing" is not sufficiently portrayed. But in my opinion, the theme of the film is not single. What it wants to tell is more when the torrent of the times is rolling down, especially in such a special process, these various characters, their laughter and tears, their ups and downs, their active or unavoidable choices. These characters may be none other than Uncle Liu and Aunt Wang next door to us.
Thank you Wang Xiaoshuai, Wang Jingchun, Yongmei, Alia and other very good actors for their incisive performances. I would also like to add that I would like to thank the crew for restoring those years, as well as Baotou and Lianjiang, where they were filmed.
"It's not a movie, it's life itself".
This is the most touching GGKF 40th anniversary product I have ever seen.
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